On the West Coast, a Distinguished Company Avoids Showing Any Gray

Members of San Francisco Ballet in Mark Morris’s Drink to Me Only. Photograph: Erik Tomasson.

Alastair Macaulay 8/16/24 Alastair Macaulay 8/16/24

Design Meets Dance, and Rules Are Broken

Part of Robert Rauschenberg’s set for Merce Cunningham’s Minutiae.

Alastair Macaulay 8/16/24 Alastair Macaulay 8/16/24

The Heart Leaps Whenever They Do

Soledad Barrio with Noche Flamenca

Alastair Macaulay 7/28/24 Alastair Macaulay 7/28/24

Steps That Outshine Big City’s Bright Lights

Ashley Bouder and Jonathan Stafford in George Balanchine’s “Tschaikovsky Piano Concerto no 2”. Photograph: Paul Kolnik.

Alastair Macaulay 7/27/24 Alastair Macaulay 7/27/24

The Bolshoi’s Whiz Kids on Display in London

The Bolshoi female corps de ballet in the Shades scene of La Bayadère. Photograph: Dee Conway.

Alastair Macaulay 7/26/24 Alastair Macaulay 7/26/24

Let Young Waste Youth; Baryshnikov Doesn’t Need It

Mikhail Baryshnikov and colleagues rehearsing Aszure Barton’s Come In. Photograph: Andrea Mohin.

Alastair Macaulay 7/10/24 Alastair Macaulay 7/10/24

The inconsistencies of the dance critic Clement Crisp

Alastair Macaulay 5/1/08 Alastair Macaulay 5/1/08

Step Right Up, Kids (and Thank the Dance Gods You’re Not Elephants)

Alastair Macaulay 1/29/08 Alastair Macaulay 1/29/08

A Slow, Winding Descent Through a Hallucinatory World Befogged by Opium

The Kirov corps de ballet of Shades in La Bayadère at the Kennedy Center, Washington. Photograph: Linda Spillers.

Alastair Macaulay 1/21/08 Alastair Macaulay 1/21/08

Then, With a Touch of Now, and a Fully Charged Prodigal Son

Damian Woetzel in the title role of George Balanchine’s ballet The Prodigal Son. Photograph: Paul Kolnik.

Alastair Macaulay 11/1/07 Alastair Macaulay 11/1/07

Swinging Into Comedy (and Along With Sinatra)

Jeffrey Golladay, Maria Riccetto, Kristi Boone, and others In American Ballet Theatre production of Twyla Tharp’s “Baker’s Dozen”. Photograph: Andrea Mohin

Alastair Macaulay 6/10/07 Alastair Macaulay 6/10/07

The Dance of the Final Bow

Darcey Bussell as Manon (Kenneth MacMillan). Photograph: Johan Persson.

Alastair Macaulay 5/21/07 Alastair Macaulay 5/21/07

Legends of Life and Art, Stravinsky and Balanchine

Yvonne Borree, Ashley Bouder, Megan Fairchild, with Nikolaj Hübbe as the muses and Apollo in George Balanchine’s Apollo. Photograph: Paul Kolnik.

Alastair Macaulay 4/1/07 Alastair Macaulay 4/1/07

Confessions of a “Romeo” Fiend